Friday, June 13, 2014

Sen. John McCain continued his blistering attack on President Barack Obama’s handling of Iraq on Friday, again calling for his entire national security team to be replaced and saying his decisions have been very costly.

"The president wanted out and now we are paying a heavy price," the Arizona Republican said on MSNBC....

Americans widely support President Obama's recent decision to withdraw nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year, with 75% approving. That includes the vast majority of Democrats and independents. Republicans, however, are slightly more likely to disapprove than approve.

Oh, and since I know you're going to pull the same diva act eventually with regard to Afghanistan if given half a chance, here are the numbers on that withdrawal:

McCain led the idiots wanting to "further" the war on fundamentalist terrorists by taking down Iraq, a secular government with a woman and a Christian in the Saddam cabinet, no burksas, and no sharia law. Sure Saddam was a brutal strongman, but nothing but such rule could hold the bitterly divided factions together. Democracy for Iraq was always a joke. But Iraq was a bastion of resistance to our actual enemies, but Cheney wanted Iraq oil, and 9-11 was an excuse. It was inevitable that creating disorder in Iraq would bring horrendous consequences as we may be seeing right now.

Of course, if McCain had had his way, back in the day, we would still be fighting in Vietnam or we would long since have eradicated the entire Vietnamese people, North and South, rather than just give it up and go home.